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INTERROGATORY VIII.

I. The provisions for sewerage and drainage, the position and state of the

latrines and urinals.

II. The water supply; its sources, quality, and amount.

III. The means for ventilation: a, of the building generally; b, of the

separate wards or cells.

IV. The baths and lavatories.

V. The means for heating; and the average temperature in hot and in cold

seasons.

VI. The amount of window-space, exclusive of bars; the provisions for

lighting.

Auswer

H: There is an sotensive septem of good drains throughout

a

the prison gards, through which

corious supply of water is continually floreing. The prosition of the lavatories zurinals Kept in a perfect state in by the

is in the warcise

are

egards, they of cleanliness being reamined and reported

Colonial

Dungeon

N.Z. The water supply is most abundant and of weethent

quality, it comes from reservois situated at a ansivereble distammer and elevation.

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N.G. Eay cell a ward how one or more ventilators opening out to the air, there are also for lenge air shafts running up the sides of the central lover, conveying ventilation to the passages, corridors, t

hil. There are

fifteen banks in the Gaol for the use of prismes, situated in the various yards and other parts of the puser where they are required they

arewal supplied with water

all the

year

round.

Nis. The olimate being tropical, no artificial heating is required

The average heat in summer

being about 80 c. in Winter Sy-c. M. I. The amount of window space ncclusive of bars in

cell

containing 26 cubic fur occupied by one prisoner is 2 feet by Y.

The prison yards with Oil Lamps.

are lit with

gas,

the inteuer